ABOUT | GPC 2023
University of Rome Tor Vergata, with the School of Economics, launched the 8th Global Procurement Conference that this year, will take place live on July 6th and 7th in our beautiful location in Rome, Villa Mondragone, a patrician villa in the suggestive territory of the Alban Hills in the area called, from its many castles and villas, Castelli Romani (about 20 km southeast of Rome).
The conference will take place in presence. There are no online sessions.
The goal of the Global Procurement Conference is to raise awareness for the planetary implications of joint decisions regarding what is purchased, how and for whom in the public domain.
The University of Rome Tor Vergata, with the support of European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, has the pleasure of organizing yearly an event where experts from International Financial Institutions and regulatory bodies, policy-makers, economists, engineers, lawyers, procurers gather for a much-needed debate concerning issues related to innovation, competitiveness, sustainability and regulation in public procurement worldwide.
For the 8th edition of our Global Procurement Conference, we have the great honour of hosting the Erasmus+ ProcToGo project, so to share practices and tools to boost the upskilling of procurement professionals.
CONFERENCE STRUCTURE
The conference will be organized as follows: 3 different sessions each one with two themes to be presented and discussed by 4 speakers.
A History of Professional Upgrading in Procurement at Tor Vergata
Tor Vergata University of Rome of Rome is a leading centre of excellence of procurement training, consulting and research. The Master in Procurement Management broke new grounds seventeen years ago by setting new interdisciplinary standards for procurement knowledge and by uniting the fields of law, economics, and engineering to the curriculum of a knowledgeable procurer. In addition, by creating a unique programme for private, public civilian and military personnel, we introduced the revolutionary concept of the need for a joint debate that would foster greater innovation, responsibility, and sustainability across the Italian economy.
Following that successful initiative, a new Master in Public Procurement Management, IMPPM, was created in 2012 with the decisive and generous support of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development along with the Italian government. More than 250 public procurers from all over the world have come to Rome for 4 months to follow the interdisciplinary courses taught by some of the most important experts in procurement, including IFI specialists, lawyers, economists, and technical experts.
Since 2021 Tor Vergata University of Rome has been coordinating ProcToGo, an Erasmus+ Strategic partnership aiming to develop an e-learning platform and a microcredential framework on the topics of digital and sustainable procurement.
ProcToGo project involves five YERUN universities: University of Antwerp, University of Bremen, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Tor Vergata University of Rome.
